Cognizant

QA Lead (Allegro Application Testing)

Cognizant$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with the Allegro application key to success in the energy and trading sector.
  • Proficiency in SQL and API testing is essential.
  • Demonstrated business analytic skills to bridge communication between stakeholders and technical teams.
  • Robust knowledge of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) imperative for effective test management.
  • Experience working in the energy and trading domain is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with business stakeholders to gather, document, and validate project requirements.
  • Produce detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
  • Lead workshops and requirement walkthroughs for technical understanding.
  • Identify and assess project risks, gaps, and dependencies early on.
  • Manage and maintain requirements traceability throughout the project's lifecycle.
  • Develop comprehensive testing strategies and execute various test cycles effectively.
  • Log and track defects through resolution while coordinating UAT with stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements aimed at enhancing work-life balance.
  • Supportive wellbeing programs to foster a healthier workplace environment.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a QA Lead with strong experience in the Allegro application and the energy & trading domain. In this role, you will own the end-to-end testing lifecycle-driving test planning, STLC execution, SQL/API validation, and defect management-while partnering with business stakeholders to ensure seamless user acceptance testing (UAT) and high-quality software delivery.

In this role, you will

Business Analysis
  • Engage with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate requirements.
  • Produce clear and detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases.
  • Facilitate workshops and requirement walkthroughs with both business and technical teams.
  • Identify gaps, dependencies, and risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
  • Maintain and manage the requirements traceability matrix throughout the project.

Quality Assurance
  • Develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases aligned to business requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Execute functional, regression, integration, and UAT test cycles.
  • Log, track, and manage defects through to resolution.
  • Work closely with developers to ensure defects are understood and fixes are verified.
  • Support and coordinate User Acceptance Testing with business stakeholders.
  • Contribute to test automation where applicable.

Collaboration & Governance
  • Act as the single point of contact between business stakeholders and the QA/delivery team.
  • Ensure requirements and test coverage are aligned at every stage of delivery.
  • Participate in sprint ceremonies - planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Produce clear status reports on testing progress, defect trends, and quality metrics.
  • Champion quality standards and best practices across the team.

Required skills
  • Strong experience in Allegro application.
  • Energy and trading domain.
  • SQL, API testing.
  • Business analytic skills.
  • Strong STLC.

Preferred skills

Energy and trading domain experience is preferred.

Working arrangements

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring 5 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Calgary, AB.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

Applications for this position are reviewed by our recruitment team without the use of artificial intelligence screening tools.

Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
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